The paragraph in question appears to be BBC merely stating the obvious. “The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish authorities and several Western states, but it is now a key player in the battle against the jihadist group Islamic State.”

However, Ankara condemned this as some form of glorification and support for terrorism, and the foreign ministry statement warned BBC “This publication violates the U.N. and Council of Europe resolutions in this field. Promoting and glorifying terrorism is a crime.” (emphasizing added)

This begs the question — if Ankara believes “promoting and glorifying terrorism is a crime,” then is it guilty of this very crime given its support for Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Nusra/Al Qaeda affiliates, ETIM and TIP that are designated terrorist groups by various countries such as China, Israel, Egypt, Russia, EU and US? (emphasizing added)

Egypt’s terrorists

While Ankara expresses outrage for a BBC profile of its designated terrorist group PKK, it seems to have no qualms supporting Egypt’s designated terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood, which is also recognized as such by Russia and other Arab Gulf states.

In fact the Brotherhood has set up television stations in Ankara with commentators delivering ominous predictions of violence in Egypt, and Cairo accusing Ankara of also working with ISIS on the Sinai Peninsula to destabilize Egypt.

In early 2015 amid reports Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal would be expelled from Qatar, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu declared he would be welcome in Turkey whenever he wants.

This prompted then State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki to warn “Hamas is a designated foreign terrorist organization…we continue to raise our concerns about the relationship between Hamas and Turkey with senior Turkish officials, including after learning of Mashaal’s recent visit there”—in reference to Turkey hosting Mashaal’s December visit to an AKP congress in Konya and was seen holding hands with Prime Minister Davutoglu.

German politician Volcker Beck also warned that “a Turkey that sees itself as a partner of Hamas is not a partner of D [Germany] or the EU” and likely an increasingly illegitimate NATO member, as Israel lodged a complaint to NATO on Turkey providing a base for Hamas to set up headquarters and coordinate attacks against the Jewish state from there.

US/EU’s terrorists

Ankara also supports al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria. On 24 August Syrian rebels revealed Turkish intelligence tipped al Nusra to US trained fighters when they entered Syria, and enabled Nusra to snatch many of the 54 graduates of the $500 million programme on 29 July.

An unnamed officer of Division 30, the rebel group the captured unit was supposed to join, revealed “only the Americans and the Turks knew about the plans for the train-and-equip fighters to enter Syria.” Captain Ammar al Wawi, spokesman for Division 30, refused to say Turkey had betrayed the operation though he corroborated that only Turkey and the U.S. were aware of the details of the plan to enter Syria.

An official from southern Turkey said Ankara leaked the information to Nusra to sabotage the train-and-equip programme, hoping the rapid disintegration of the programmme would force the Americans into expanding the training and arming of Turkey’s rebel groups focused on toppling Assad rather than ISIS.

Turkey’s anti-Assad rebel groups, called the Army of Conquest, is a jihadi witches brew of al Qaeda affiliates and other Islamic extremists responsible for the massacring of other religious and ethnic minorities in the region.

Ankara also seems to dismiss the fact that Al Qaeda has the blood on its hands of over 3,000 Americans in 9/11, almost 5,000 American troops in Iraq and over 2,000 US troops in Afghanistan, as well as being a designated terrorist organization in US, EU and various other countries.

China’s terrorists

The Chinese are also angry at Turkey’s support for Uyghur militants, as Ankara’s anti-Assad jihadi coalition Jaysh al Fatah, or Army of Conquest, includes the al-Qaeda affiliated Chinese Uyghur group Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP).

TIP has claimed responsibility for a number of high-profile terrorist attacks in China, including the Kunming train station attack that China dubs its 9/11.

On observing Turkey’s insistence that Kurdish groups such as PKK, YPG and others are unpalatable allies for the US anti-ISIS coalition and attempting to replace them with anti-Assad Army of Conquest rebel groups, Pat Buchanan warned the Obama administration that “We must stop allowing our friends to choose our enemies in the Middle East.” (emphasizing added)

“Turkey’s actions demonstrate, as do those of other allies in the region, that their enemies are not always our enemies, and that, as they single-mindedly pursue their national goals, so should we.”

Buchanan noted the Iraqi Kurds have been loyal friends of the U.S. since Desert Storm and the Syrian Kurds, the YPG, have been effective fighting boots on the ground against ISIS, rendering them “de facto allies no matter what the Turks say,” while “our enemies are al-Qaida, which slaughtered 3,000 of our people, and its progeny. Our enemies are ISIS, which has beheaded Americans, and threatens us, our allies and friends.” (emphasizing added)

Getting back to Turkey’s fury over the BBC documentary while supporting so many of other countries’ terrorist groups, one wonders if perhaps Ankara should first modify its own behavior before accusing others of supporting terrorism. (emphasizing added)